It purports to be a celebration of Finland, a country that is overlooked when travelling abroad as "a poor second to Belgium", despite the fact that it "has it all" with lofty mountains and tall trees and pleasures including: pony trekking, camping or "just watching TV". In reality "mountains so lofty" are not characteristic of Finland as the Scandinavian Mountains only just touch the northwesternmost corner of the country.

Palin gave an impromptu rendition of the song while travelling through Finland for the 1992 travel documentary Pole to Pole.

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This weekend, Trump managed to insult a venerated military veteran, mangled the name of a wildfire-scarred town that he had just left, confused the president of Finland by making strange comments about leaf raking and, like a grade schooler, attempted to taunt a critic in Congress with a naughty play on his name....

Op-Ed Op-Ed OpinionFinland to President Trump ... “I was with the president of Finland and he said, ‘We're a forest nation.’ He called it a forest nation, and they spend a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things ... Finland, perched far up in Northern Europe, could not be more different from California....

Thousands of miles across the Atlantic, people in Finland are making a mockery out of PresidentDonald Trump after the U.S ... “I was with the president of Finland and he said ...It's my civic duty," News Now Finland editor David Mac Dougall chimed in ... Trump says Finland's President told him they prevent forest fires with raking....

And even though experts called his criticism unjustified, this weekend he continued in that vein, suggesting that California should take lessons from Finland, a country with 23 million hectares of forests but comparatively few forest fires ... “I was with the president of Finland and he said ... Finland is much colder than California....

Finns have been left bewildered by US President’s Donald Trump’s suggestion that California should copy Finland in raking forest floors to prevent future wildfires ...Hey ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩, they don’t really rake the forests in Finland... In Finland even small kids ......

The people of Finland have reacted with bemusement on social media at Donald Trump’s assertions that the country rakes its forests to help prevent forest fires ... “I was with the president of Finland and he said, ‘we have, much different, we are a forest nation.’ He called it a forest nation ... I grew up in Finland....

But just a few hundred miles away, in neighboring Finland, officials worried about a far different problem ... As all of Finland’s neighboring countries, including Russia, battled massive blazes, the skies over Finland were smoke-free ... Finland does, however, offer an instructive example to its Nordic neighbors....

This weekend, Trump managed to insult a venerated military veteran, mangled the name of a wildfire-scarred town that he had just left, confused the president of Finland by making strange comments about leaf raking and, like a grade schooler, attempted to taunt a critic in Congress with a naughty play on his name....

This refers to the letter ‘HappyFinland’ (November 17) by Owais Khalid. The writer has talked about the factors that have made Finland the happiest place on earth. While reading about the facilities provided in Finland and other Nordic countries, it dawned on me that our country is surrounded by so many problems....

The president of Finland has said he didn't discuss raking leaves with Donald Trump following the US leader's bizarre comments in the wake of the California wildfires. During a visit on Saturday to one of the areas devastated by the blaze, Mr Trump said forest fires weren't a problem in Finland because of raking....

While answering reporters’ questions, Trump once again argued that California’s fires were mismanaged, this time suggesting that Finland has the right idea by “raking” their forests preemptively ... “I was with the president of Finland and he said, ‘We’re a forest nation.’ He called it a forest nation....

HELSINKI -- Finland's president isn't sure where PresidentDonald Trump got the idea that raking is part of his country's routine for managing its substantial forests ... Forests cover over 70 percent of Finland's 130,000 square miles....